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Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.
Lawrence Durrell
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Lawrence Durrell
Age: 78 †
Born: 1912
Born: January 1
Died: 1990
Died: November 8
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A city becomes a world when one loves one of its inhabitants.
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It only takes one match to ignite a haystack, or one remark to fire a mind.
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'We live' writes Pursewarden somewhere 'lives based upon selected fictions. Our view of reality is conditioned by our position in space and time — not by our personalities as we like to think. Thus every interpretation oа reality is based upon a unique position. Two paces east or west and the whole picture is changed.
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The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.
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I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.
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How grudging memory is, and how bitterly she clutches the raw material of her daily work.
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To write a poem is like trying to catch a lizard without its tail falling off.
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You see, nothing matters except pleasure - which is the opposite of happiness, its tragic part, I expect.
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Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.
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It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do something else.
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It is not peace we seek but meaning.
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He thought and suffered a good deal but he lacked the resolution to dare--the first requisite of a practitioner.
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An idea is like a rare bird which cannot be seen. What one sees is the trembling of the branch it has just left.
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The steward, according to custom, had stopped all the clocks. This, in the language of Narouz, said Your stay with us is so brief, let us not be reminded of the flight of the hours.
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Odd, isn't it? He really was the right man for her in a sort of way but then as you know, it is a law of love that the so-called 'right' person always comes to soon or too late.
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Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other.
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Religion is simply art bastardized out of all recognition.
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Life is more complicated than we think, yet far simpler than anyone dares to imagine
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For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination.
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Frost in January minus 20 for a week. Dead birds frozen on the branch—they fall with the first thaw like ripe fruit—death-ripened. We shall all end like them—just a stain in the snow.
Lawrence Durrell
